@gkolyfetis.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de presenting his work on bee navigation at the annual meeting of the Beekeepers of Baden in Radolfzell 🍯🐝. Thank you for the invitation! Great to see the public interest in science and find out what we can learn from each other. 👁️🧭

Enjoyed watching the #mason #bees that moved into the little bee house on our balcony feast from our rhododendron. The way they wedge themselves into the flowers 😄 They might also have found some little extra sugary surprises - it was Easter after all 🐰🌸🐝 #WildlifePhotography #insect #bee #macro

Special issue editors @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social, Basil el Jundi & Kentaro Arikawa introduce their special issue on the neuroethology of lepidoptera 🦋. The issue covers a broad field of research spanning from neuroanatomy, sensory perception to behavior. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper out on the decision strategies of bumblebees. When using visual cues to make flower choices, they switch strategy with sensory context, learning as much as necessary, but as little as possible. Based on their training time, we propose a mechanism for this switch. tinyurl.com/2r9d4jrs 🌸🐝🧠

Excited to share my first PhD preprint! w/ Sören Kannegieser and @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social @insect-vision.bsky.social We investigated how hawkmoths coordinate lateralized sensory and motor control for appendage guidance, revealing similar control principles to vertebrates doi.org/10.64898/202...

New paper from the lab, led by @ronjabigge.bsky.social, in collaboration with Kentaro Arikawa. We reconcile contrast and spatial processing functions of lamina monopolar cells by integrating 3D morphology, connectivity and neurophysiology in the hummingbird hawkmoth. tinyurl.com/mvnh3325 For more 👇

Visiting the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart for our science-art collaboration with the Akademie and @zukunftskolleg.bsky.social Konstanz. Excited to see the final student projects inspired by vision in insects after this field trip!

Season's Greetings from the Lab in our most - Christmas party award winning !! - festive attire. 🎄👼🐮👑🐑⭐ With animalistic support from @jjfosterlab.bsky.social Happy holidays and a great start into the New Year to you all! extra Christmassy stars to anyone who guesses what we are 😉

Great fun to participate in the #UniKonstanz Open Science Slam 2025 🎤✨🤓 Presented insights of our "market research" on insect preferences for flowers - with support from citizen science. Lineup of fantastic speakers and an amazing audience ! Big thanks to the #TeamOpenScience for organising.

How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/juEhw...

Best audience ever - 100+ children at a live show of the BR Lachlabor radio show, where I was invited for expertise on animal questions. 🤓🐆🐦🦗 What I learned: we should also have dance breaks for adult events!

We had a rather unexpected presenter at our lab meeting this morning 😄🪲🎓

Thanks to this #hummingbird #hawkmoth, which enjoyed a late season snack of ornamental salvia, I have collected proof that insects are input-output systems 😂💦! #insect #nature #photography

Very excited to take part in #ABL2025 👇

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Bit of an orgy going on at the moment 😆... Every other Scabiosa flower is hosting one or more six-spot burnets (Blutströpfchen in German). I was wondering why they are mating this late: it is the caterpillar stage that overwinters in this species 🤓🦋❄️! #insect #nature #photography

Dressing up fancy for a day out? This little guy made sure to match his flower background with a smashing yellow "moustache". 🐝🌸 Drone of Bombus lapidarius, the red-tailed #bumblebee (Steinhummel). #photography #insect

Beautiful work by @ronjabigge.bsky.social and Rebecca Grittner is out 🥳 How do the statistics of natural visual scenes and the relevance of these stimuli for the moths' flight safety shape the integration of parallel pathways for flight guidance? ✈️🦋

After days of torrential rains, we had a few hours of sunshine today - which were enjoyed by humans and insects alike 🌸🐝 there is a great number of large hoverflies around - any idea what species these might be? #insect #pollinator #hoverfly #photography

It was a pleasure to be part of this wonderful podcast! I can highly recommend to check out all episodes (there is a whole first season to explore as well 🤓).

Float like a hawkmoth and drink like one too! What better way to understand insect behaviour? 🍹🦋🍹 An exciting evening of science outreach by the lake, by @cbehav.bsky.social ‪‪‪@excinequality.bsky.social‬ With moth impersonators: @emmarusconi.bsky.social @manel-a-pama.bsky.social ky.social‬

Congratulations to @ronjabigge.bsky.social to an awesome #PhD and a great defense at Würzburg University! #proudPI She was welcomed home and celebrated in style with @insect-vision.bsky.social and the whole neurobiology community in Konstanz.

Really excited for our research to be featured in this beautiful #preLight article about our study Bumblebees flexibly adjust learning and decision strategies to sensory information content in a foraging task by Tim Schwanitz & Cemre Coskun. 🐝

I'm really happy to share the first preprint of my PhD work in @jjfosterlab.bsky.social! During a fruitful collaboration with @gregoeur.bsky.social, we uncovered a surprising feature of bees' eyes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I guess that's why we call them POLLEN-ators! 🐝 #insect #pollinator #photography #spring

Spotted the first hummingbird #hawkmoth of the season - and many adorable #bee-flies! Long-tongued hover power squared 🐝🌸🦋 #insect #pollinator #photography #spring

We are excited to have Aruna visit our lab over the summer as part of her PhD! She is investigating how hawkmoths actively shape their flight trajectories to better sense the spatial layout of their environment while working towards a 3D tracking system to accurately capture their movement!

Welcome to the LAB: Emma Rusconi @emmarusconi.bsky.social We are excited that Emma has recently joined us as a research assistant! She is currently investigating how bumblebees generalize visual patterns, and will soon investigate how nocturnal moths navigate in different light conditions.

New review about "Path integration and optic flow in flying insects" doi.org/10.1007/s003.... One of the questions asked, where in the visual field insects perceive optic flow, is addressed and discussed in our recent work: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

So excited to see all of this hard work coming together, as @ronjabigge.bsky.social has finalised her thesis and is submitting today 👏🥂#submission #PhDthesis

We had a fantastic #retreat in the Black Forest together with @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and Nouvian labs. We escaped rooms, worked on laboratory code of conduct, went hiking, learned about first aid, data visualisation and pose estimation, brainstormed science and went wild playing games!

Fantastische Location für einen Vortrag über das nächtliche Sehvermögen der Insekten mit einem wunderbaren Publikum! Vielen Dank an Kortizes und das Planetarium #Nürnberg für die Einladung und die tolle Organisation. 🙏 @jjfosterlab.bsky.social für die 📸

🎄🎁🎄We're celebrating another buzzing year at the insect vision lab. Season's greetings and a happy new year from our hive to yours 🎉🦋🐝🎉 #Moths #Happyholidays

Hello Bluesky 👋 we have buzzed and hummed our way here too 🦋🐝 As the Visual Neuroethology Lab @unikonstanz.bsky.social we are fascinated by the complex behaviour that the tiny but mighty insect brain generates. Find us for more info on insect-vision.com & watch this space for updates 😀.

Since this platform seems to be full of #fungifriends, asking for expertise: anyone knows the name of these brain-like creatures? 🧠 appealed to me for professional reasons 🤓 ( #naturephotography, black forest, Germany) #fungi #mushrooms

Ever wondered how to move a tongue the length of your body to some yummy food? Tanvi Deora & I summarised what is known about the most elegant of tongue-waggling - the sensorimotor control of the hawkmoth proboscis - in a recent review in ICB t.ly/gZDHX 🦋😛

Excited to join the community! Will be seeking out old and new connections in neuroethology, insect, pollinator, vision, behaviour, anatomy, science, education, and many other spaces on this platform 🤓😀